Improvement in armlets



UNITED STATES ATENT QFFICE.

ALFRED S. POTTER, OF PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, ASSIGNOR TO HIM- SELF AND JOSEPH H. FANNING, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ARMLETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 125,407, dated April 9, 1872.

SPECIFICATION.

Fig. 5 is a cross-section through the fastening end of the tongue; and Fig. 6 shows edgewise the loop f of the tongue and the hook n, which constitutes the fastenin gs. Fig. 7 represents .the tlat piece of the sheet metal as it is cut out preparatory to being bent into the required form for the armlet, as shown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3.

Similar letters indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Heretofore this kind of armlet has been unilversally made with its tongue in a separate piece and hinged to the front part B, which construction is very expensive, on account of the labor involved in making the separate. tongue; and the joint by which such tongue is required to be attached to the front part, in a con venient and substantial manner; and when the tonguewas thus made in a separate piece 1t was required to be of peculiar construction Vto fasten with a knob or button that was soldei-ed to the back side of the front piece B.

The object in view in my said invention is to reduce the cost of labor in making this armlet, and by so doing cheapen the cost of its manufacture. My invention consists of an armlet the front and tongue of which are cut in one piece from thin sheet metal, and bent into form, with the ends connected by a suitable fastening formed therein, without soldering.

In the drawing, B is the front piece or portion of the armlet, which is generally more or less ornamental inform, and T is the tongue, forming a continued end of the front, bent nearly parallel with the same, as shown in Fig. 3; and g is the fastening-end, to which the said tongue is secured, and which is a continuation ot' the opposite end of the front, bent in like manner with the tongue therefrom, but somewhat shorter, and terminating in a flat hook, n, cut in form from the sheet and bent, and hooking into a loop, f, which is cut and forced up into form from the end of the tongue in a manner well-known to workers in sheet metal, and shown clearly in Fig. 5, and in connection with the hook in Figs. 3 and 6. The advantage of forming the armlet as described is that the front B, tongue T, and fastenin g-end g are all made in form at once when the same is cut, as shown in Fig. 7, from the sheet, after which it is only necessary to bend the vhook n and cut 4the loop f to complete the const-ruotion of the armlet. The advantage of the combined hook and loop as a fastening is that it can be easily and cheaply made in sheet metal, of which the whole structure is made without soldering.

O laims.

I claim as my invention- 1. The armlet of sheet metal, with its tongue and fastening-end a continuation of the saine piece of metal as the front, substantially as described.

2. I also claim the fastening, composed of the hook n and loop f, formed in sheet metal, substantially as specified.

ALFRED S. POTTER.

Witnesses:

ISAAC A. RROWNELL, ZERAH. B. SMITH. 

